David Fletcher (2)

This book is so bad I shouldn't even bother with it, but I will, since it bothered me so, just for a sec.

Briefly, Hunted: A True Story of Survival, is about a gargantuan Grizzly Bear with huge, frightful incisors (see bookcover), out for some righteous revenge, engaged in its arguably God- (or evolutionally-) endowed instinct of hunting hateful, bear cub butchering humans that give even yellow-bellied cowards a bad name.

I was rooting for the rightfully enraged Grizzly Mama the whole way. Go show more Grizz Mama go! Eat that nasty human! Too bad the understandably vindictive Grizzly Mama Bear didn't write this story - a story about a buffoonish, arrogant, ex-Royal Marine climbing a mountain in Alaska, all the while being hunted by a naturally upset Mama Bear whose innocent bear cub he summarily executed like it were some imaginary Taliban spy - prob'ly would've been a better written story had the grizzly bear written it. Growl. That "growl" emanated from my gut and not the grizzly bear's, btw.

See, ever since Grizzly Adams, I've a soft spot for grizzlies. Cute, cuddly animals when trained and treated just right by people with know-how. And besides, unnecessary cruelty to animals just sort of plain sucks too doesn't it? Sometimes supposed human beings, no matter how well militarily trained they might be, are more animals than animals, aren't they? show less

Maybe it's my bias, but I think that Fletcher shouldn't have killed the bear cub and shouldn't have proceeded to climb the mountain with the mother hunting him. Also, his statement of "hair turned white overnight" doesn't ring true. Stress can cause pigmented hair to fall out, leaving grey and white hair. However, pigmented hairs are dead cells and do not "turn white."